FORMER PRESIDENTS CALL FOR RESPECT OF HISTORICAL AGREEMENTS AND THE DIGNITY OF LATIN AMERICA REGARDING THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK The time has come to vehemently insist on the importance of postponing the election of the next president of the Inter-American Development…
By Ellen Brown* – Unz Review Mayhem in Melbourne On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy…
By Juan Gabriel Tokatlian* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was founded in 1959 and it has been the leading provider of financial support for Latin American and the Caribbean. Since then the President of the institution has been a Latin American. There are several…
As multilateral institutions attempt to respond to today’s unprecedented global challenges, one that already works well is the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Established in 1959 and headquartered in Washington DC., the IDB is widely recognized for its important role in…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Belarus, whose recent elections are making waves throughout the media, has been a pending flashpoint in Europe for some time. The reasons for this are history and geography.
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen* – The Washington Post A hundred years ago, French, British and Italian officials convened in a famous porcelain factory southwest of Paris to carve up the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug. 10, 1920, concluded months of…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control. When schoolchildren across the United States began their…
By Elizabeth Holtzman* – The Nation I served on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate. What Nixon tried to do in secret pales in comparison to what Trump does in the open Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s jail sentence is an act of blatant corruption. The…
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the world and could surpass the U.S. death…
By Sarah C Anderson and Sunita Viswanath (*) – Opinion, in Al Jazeera Only strong pressure from the US can stop the Indian government from further eroding religious freedom in the country. On June 10, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released the 2019 International Religious…
